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Nintendo Flirted With Cyanogen For The Nintendo Switch OS; Executive Told Them To “Stick It”

It appears that Nintendo approached Android software company Cyanogen to develop an OS for the recently released Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo’s new hybrid platform now runs a custom Nintendo operating system, but an Android OS for the Switch was considered by the Japanese gaming behemoth.

At least, that’s what Cyanogen’s executive chairman, Kirt McMaster, said in some recent Tweets. According to the Cyanogen executive, he was asked to help develop an operating system for a “certain portable” – an offer which he ‘kindly’ turned down. McMaster’s initial tweet was unfortunately deleted, but this is what he tweeted yesterday:

In a follow-up tweet, McMaster stated that the Switch is mostly using custom kernel, while bits of Android were also used.

It would have been quite interesting to see Nintendo’s Switch run on the most popular OS on the mobile market.